My head is about to burst with envy. All those great locations in Japan you visit! Perhaps I am lacking dedication after all. Last photo trip I made was to the center of Tokyo, by subway...

40 images stitched, layered and what more... very nice. I am really curious to see what a good sized print of a photo like this looks like (never actually witnessed that). No exhibitions in the near future?

One honest question: what was there below this frame that you decided to trade in for that top bit of sky? The green is so cool and pleasant, there could always be more in the pic for what I'm concerned. No griping about your choice of framing though, just interested.*ducks to avoid incoming D2x*

40 images stitched, layered and what more... very nice. I am really curious to see what a good sized print of a photo like this looks like (never actually witnessed that). No exhibitions in the near future?[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=73308\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]

Thanks a lot for the kind words. No exhibition planned, I don't think anyone would want to show that...

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One honest question: what was there below this frame that you decided to trade in for that top bit of sky? The green is so cool and pleasant, there could always be more in the pic for what I'm concerned. No griping about your choice of framing though, just interested.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=73308\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]

Under this frame? More green grass basically. It might have been good to use more of that, but there were various technical constraints, including me not being completely awake yet at 4:00 AM after a night in the tent.

Looking closely leads one to wonder a bit how it was done so well. With the need to make 40 captures at that time of the day when the illumination changes quickly, you either made the captures very quickly, or had superb software for equilibrating the luminosity. Also, the stitching should have been quite a challenge because in large expanses of this image the "points de repere" are not quite "soit-evident".

Thanks a lot for your kind comments. I was out shooting 4 days in the Japanese alps (4*5 this time ) and only got back in town this evening.

There really isn't anything secret about the way this was shot. It was already light enough that the shutter speed was fast enough to be able to take many images in a short amount of time.

I took 3 to 5 images at each angle (-1, 0, +1 and some hiding the sun to avoid flare). I must have taken less than 2 minutes to shoot all the images. Luck comes in through the fact that I didn't forget to take any of these although it was only 4:10 AM.

The post processing was a lot trickier since I tried this time to prepare the images in PS before sending them to PTgui. At each angle I superposed the lighest and darkest image and applied a hand edited gradient between these 2.

This alone wasn't enough since the sky got way too dark in the left part of the image. I decided to simulate a stitch in PS by positioning the images approximately. I did then apply a second left to right gradient in multiply mode to increase the weight of the lighter image towards the left end of the image. Finally, I had to copy parts of that mask back to the individual images.

PTgui did hence a great job at making this look pretty seemless. I had to play a bit with the control points, but that part didn't take too much time compared to the PS work.

...and I agree with what a previous poster said - you really should exhibit some of your work. I for one would come and see it, I'd love to see what this image and the one you did of the Great Wall would look like printed big.

...and I agree with what a previous poster said - you really should exhibit some of your work. I for one would come and see it, I'd love to see what this image and the one you did of the Great Wall would look like printed big.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=75633\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]

Very kind of you, thanks.

I might have the chance to exhibit a few images late 06/early 07 somewhere in Tokyo.

...and I agree with what a previous poster said - you really should exhibit some of your work. I for one would come and see it, I'd love to see what this image and the one you did of the Great Wall would look like printed big.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=75633\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]

Another wonderful image Bernard.

That Great Wall image is mentioned again Many of us remember it fondly. One of my absolute favourites!